In a previous article we explained the way on how to download your uploaded Facebook photos and information from your account using Facebook’s download personal data feature. But what can we do if we want to make a backup copy of photos from our friends or photos where we are tagged in? This is useful when someone of our friends deactivates (deletes) his or her account from Facebook. In this case all our photos where we are tagged in are lost forever.

During this research we found a lot of utilities out there that perform the same operation. In this article we wrote about the most reliable of them, according to out tests. If you find another reliable application to download Facebook content, feel free to mention it to our visitors.

How to download Facebook photos, albums and videos, including photos that you are tagged in.

SocialFolders (The Product is discontinued)

Social folders is a desktop application designed for Windows and Mac, and it gives you the ability to download on your computer and then manage or synchronize content (photos, albums or videos) between your accounts on multiple social websites like Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, Google Docs, Box, YouTube, Twitter, SmugMug, Instagram, and Picasa .

SocialFolders enables you to sync your social sites with your computer. That means that you will be able to store and manage all the photos, documents and other files that today are spread across multiple online websites.

Pros:

You can download and synchronize uploaded content from and between multiple social networks .

You can download all your Facebook photo albums including photos where you are tagged in.

You can download all your Facebook friends' photos.

Syncs content between your computer and your social accounts easily like using Dropbox.

Free

Cons:

Limitation: Doesn’t support multiple accounts connected to the same social service..

Requires you to connect with your Facebook account or give your own credentials (Name, e-mail, etc.) to be able to use SocialFolders application.

How to use Social Folders to download and synchronize content between multiple social accounts.

Step 1: Download and install SocialFolders

1. First you must download SocialFolders applicationfrom (link removed).

2. Run the SocialFolders install package and follow the install instructions.

Pic&Zip is another great WEB application to download photos, albums or videos from your Facebook account or your Facebook friends to your computer.

Pros:

You can download all your Facebook photo albums, photos where you are tagged in and videos.

You can download all your Facebook friends' photo albums, videos or photos where they are tagged in.

Free

Cons:

WEB application

How to use Pic&Zip

1. To be able to use Pic&Zip you must navigate to Pic&Zip homepage and after pressing the Login button (on the top), login with your Facebook account credentials.

After that the Pic&Zip Web application opens on your web browser.

2. Look at the left pane and choose which friend’s content you want to download or press the “FIND MY PHOTOS OR VIDEOS” button, to view and download all your Facebook photos including photos where you are tagged in.

3. Then select the content that you want to download (photos, albums or videos) and download it to your computer.

11. Wait until download process is completed and then navigate to the download location to explore your photos.

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